The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-18

facing each other both life-size profles, merely
head and shoulders pictures, the cards cut cir
cular and having no frames One of these is
blonde. with Grecian features, regular as lie
Phidias hac done em with his little chisel The
lips are parted with smile chat would melt the
heart of pawn broker. A more perfect profile
could scarcely be imagined, The other. is a
dark girl with Romanesque contour of visage.
low forehead heavy brows. large, deep-set
eyes. nose just enough aquiline to be indica-
tive of character, and lips both firm and sensu-
ous the face or a Circe or Sappho. And these
two women are from St Louis.
This is a pretty state of affairs! Where are
the Chicago girls to represent the citys beauty
All! perhaps they do not resort to the camera
but have their patrcian features done in oil by
MISSIONER. In the congress of beauty San
Francisco seems to come under the wire a good
second. The Frisco bellies seem TO excel in the
matter of eyes, If we can judge from the photo
graphs Besides the exhibit of female beauty
from St. Louis, there many other pictures
OF people from our esteemed suburb. Among
them are several views of colored citizens of St
Louis sitting in the middle of principal street
and eating watermelon. There is also picture
of Ed Rice, looking like Baptist exhorter
picture of St Louis girl washed ashore after
undergoing what appears to be drowning attracts
much attention. She is SO pretty that
feels large pang of regret to think that she
never learned to swim. There are several piet-
ures of girls in tailor made clothes that fit so
tight that the girls seem to have been melted
and poured in. A scene representing prominent
ST. Louisans playing marbles gives graphic
idea of the Industry in their city, while by
is a portrait OF q man Laughing at q joke In 81
Louis paper. This unusual spectacle
deemed worthy of preservation by means of the
camera Guerin, who took" the two bellies
above described. also has couple of clever
genres. One represents gambler encounterlng
two begears and proving with empty pockets
his financial equality; the other represents a
couple Of very small children in the evening
dress OF their elders going through the scenes of
a society drama. pleasing picture is that of a
St Louis young woman in limited raiment
standing on pedestal and holding out a carrier
Iha tor 10 ind NJ to hath
she wishes to sell out the dove at sacrifice
whether she is about to send it to her young
man with note asking for matinee tickets.
From New York Sarony sends lot of theat-
rica celebrities counterfeit presentments, and
Falk has a big portrait of Modjeska, looking
twenty-five years old instead of the grand
mamma she has become lately. An Atlanta
photographer has two humorous and life-like
pictures, 1.-The Old South" and 1.-The New
South" represented by 'Uncle Tom and
plckaninny. Marsh, of kenosha. exhibits
eral bevies OF school girls from the seminary of
that town. Hamilton, Ohio, put
view colossal vase full of infante humanity.
portraits of political celebrities. among them
Senators Sherman, Evarts, Edmunds. Morrill,,
Hawley and Blair and General Sheridan From
bridgeport there is al excellent likeness of 2.
L. Barnum. There are many pictures Of hand
some residences. of picturesque rural
and of celebrated American localities. Niagara
Falls is photographed by night and day,
mer and winter From across the briny have
come three German Photographic artists:
Schmidt, of Frankfort; Oscar Schultz, of Karls
rChe, and T. Hanfstaeng of Dresden. Their
work is admirable, but not superior to that of
the best American artists The most interesting
features are the pictures of quaint old peasants
in their odd attire and in groupings, artistic
and natural as painting by Meyer Won Bremen.
popularity of the exhibit is that it illus
trates so well the little vanities of women. There
are few photographs of women with hieh-neck
dresses There is preponderance of decollete
and sleeveless waists and the exhibit of necks
and shoulders is somewhat starting. Judging
from these pictures, the young ladies of the
present prefer to be photographed with their
heads thrown over their shoulders in an uncom-
Portable attitude, their eyes rolled heavenward
with Camille" last-act expression, with a
wealth of shoulder, and the only observable gar
ment table-cloth draped over shoulder,
with air of careless neslgee Many of the
ladies have been photographed with bare feet.
a la Maud Muller The mothers display their
vanity by having their babies photographed in
eccentric fashion. Some of the babies have a
sash on. but many have nothing. not even a fig
leaf polonaise. Some of them in basins,
and some in shells; all of the poor little young
ones look exceedingly ashamed of themselves;
but their fond mammas nave evidently regarded
them perfect little cupids